U.S. not qualified to talk about human rights
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement issued on April 3 accused the United States of pulling up the DPRK over its human rights issue.
He said the U.S. with the poorest human rights record is not qualified to talk about human rights.
Recalling that the U.S. in an "annual report on human rights" released on March 31 slandered the DPRK behaving as if it were a "human rights judge," he continued:
Human rights precisely mean national sovereign rights.
The accusation made by the U.S. against the DPRK over its human rights issue is nothing but a ridiculous attempt to tarnish the international image of the DPRK by adding the "human rights issue" to the "nuclear issue" and increase its pressure upon the DPRK in a bid to infringe upon its sovereign rights.
The U.S. is beset with serious human rights abuses such as racial discrimination, religious dispute and savage torture in prisons, etc.
Even at the time when the "annual report on human rights" was issued in Washington the U.S. Forces used such weapons of mass destruction as depleted uranium bombs and cluster bombs in Iraq, killing hundreds of innocent civilians at a time. This mass killing is still going on.
The world public is now strongly condemning this barbarism as a most serious violation of human rights.
The report, however, did not mention such most serious human rights abuses as gravely infringing upon the sovereignty of a country, ignoring the un and wantonly violating international law.
It is very strange for the U.S. to not say anything about this genocide while claiming to deal with human rights issues.
As the Iraqi war shows, the U.S. is the most serious violator of human rights in our times and it is, therefore, not qualified to talk about human rights.
The U.S. efforts to destroy our socialism are as foolish as trying to sweep sea with a broom.
